Vaginal syringe



Patented 001:. 25, 1892.

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(N0 Model.)

UNITED STATES THOMAS H. MADDUX,

VAG I NAL SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Application filed April 7, 1892.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS H. MADDUX, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baker, in the parish of East Baton Rouge and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vaginal Syringes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in syringes to close hermetically the vaginal canal; and it consists of the certain novel feaures hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings, wherein the same parts are indicated by the same letters.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the device, and Fig. 2 represents a central longitudinal section of the same.

A represents a glass tube havinga rounded tapering head a, with a number of holes a, preferably four, and ashoulder a connected to a cylindrical portion a near the base of which is the olive a, separated by a second cylindrical portion from the base-piece or 1abial compress A, which is so constructed as to conform to the average contour of the pelvic region. In the cylindrical part a are a plurality of holes 0?. Over the glass tube a rubber pouch or jacket is slipped, having holes b at its base to approximately coincide with the holes a. The mouth of the pouch grasps tightly the cylindrical surface a Into the base of the tube A asuitable stopper 0 is placed. This stopper is perforated throughoutits length, as at c, and has a checkvalve 0' to prevent the return of the fluid.

D (shown in dotted lines) represents any suitable form of pump or syringe.

The operation of the device is as follows: The stopper 0 being in the position shown in Fig.2, the syringe is slipped into the vagina until the glass base-piece A presses against the labia. An anal syringe, a Davidsons syringe, or any suitable pump is then used to inject hot Water into the orifice c in the stopper 0. This hot water, flowing past the valve 0, enters the tube A, and part of it flows out of the holes a dilating the rubber pouch into PATENT OFFICE.

OF BAKER, LOUISIANA.

SYRINGE.

Patent No. 485,107, dated October 25, 1892.

Serial No. 428,227- (No model.)

a position like that shown in the dotted lines, the remainder of the water either remaining in the tube or flowing through the holes a and b into the vagina. After a sufficient amount of hot water has been pumped in, the nozzle of the syringe D is withdrawn and the stopper C is slipped past the holes a thereby forming a water-cushion between the cylindrical surface a and the walls of the vagina, and the patient puts on the usual towels, &c. The water-cushion outside of the cylindrical syringe or will adapt itself to the shape of the vagina and will effectually prevent any appreciable leakage past it. Moreover, we pansions and contractions of the vagina will be met by commensurate contractions and expansions of the rubber pouch. Th is elacticity of the rubber pouch will adapt the instrument for use with any size of vagina, for the water cushion will always fill up the canal of the vagina. The plate A will also materially assist bypressing upon the labia and compressing the parts externally without inconvenience to the patient.

When it is desired to withdraw the instrument, take the stopper 0 out of the tubeA and the liquid will speedily flow through the holes a into the tube Aand into a receptacle for the purpose, and the plug may then be readily withdrawn from the vagina. By the use of this plug the internal female generative organs in tender painful conditions may be poulticed, as it were, with alarge quantity of hot water or other suitable lotion, and the same may be retained for an indefinite tin1efor hours, or even days-aud without inconvenience to the patient.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. A vaginal syringe consisting of a tube having a tapering head with holes in the end thereof and a groove at the base of said tapering head, with holes from the interior of the tube to the exterior thereof in said groove, a stopper adapted to close said holes and also to close the mouth of the tube, and a rubber pouch or jacket having holes in its base, adapted to fit over said tube tightly at each end, but loose in the middle, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. A vaginal syringe consisting of a tube having holes in its base, adapted to fit tightly having a tapering head with holes in the end at each end and loosely in the middle over thereof and a groove at the base of said tapersaid tube, substantially as and for the puring head, With holes from the interior of the poses described.

5, tube to the exterior thereof in said groove, a In testimony WhereofIaffix my signature in 15 perforated stopper with a check-valve prepresence of two witnesses.

venting the return of liquid through said THOMAS H. MADDUX. stopper, the said stopper being adapted to lVitnesses: close said holes and also to close the mouth J. B. LOUDON,

10 of the tube, and a rubber pouch or jacket P. REARDON. 

